Italy’s annual security report, released this Monday, warned about online “influence campaigns” that aim to “condition both the sentiment and political orientation of public opinion, especially at election time.” But for Giovanni Zagni and his team at the Pagella Politica media project, the warning was unnecessary. With parliamentary elections looming […]
Daily Archives: February 23, 2018
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North Korea’s paranoid leader Kim Jong-un is desperately attempting to stem the flow of defectors – and state secrets – from North Korea into neighbouring China. Earlier this week it was revealed Kim is now rotating guards along the border with China every half an hour in a bid to […]
”Anti-fascist” protesters tried to break through a police cordon to reach a hotel where the far-right Casapound party was holding a rally for its candidates. Shock photos show Italian police officers struggling to contain protestors as they rush to extinguish Molotov cocktails thrown at them. Officers in riot gear charged […]
Ms Le Pen, whose aunt led the Front National in the 2016 French elections, told an audience of of US right-wingers at the Conservative Political Action Conference that France “wants our country back”. The 28-year-old inspired a chorus of boos as she mentioned the EU and told the audience the […]
Vienna is angry with the expansion approval because it does not think nuclear energy is a way to combat climate change. Austria’s new government, an alliance between Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s conservatives and the far-right Freedom Party, has pledged to continue Vienna’s decades-long policy of opposing nuclear power. It said last […]
An analysis of published studies indicates that children with chronic kidney disease may have lower intellectual functioning compared than children in the general population. Compared with children with mild-to-moderate stage kidney disease and with kidney transplants, children on dialysis had the lowest IQ scores. Deficits were evident for attention, memory, […]
Scientists identified mutations in a single gene that impair immunity to viruses in a region of the brain called the brain stem.
WASHINGTON — NASA’s fiscal year 2019 proposal will likely set up another showdown between NASA and Congress regarding the Europa Clipper mission, debating not only when to launch the spacecraft but also how. The 2019 budget proposal, released Feb. 12, offers $264.7 million for the mission, which would send the […]